Last night Mopsy and I got ready for bed and went upstairs ready to settle down to a breastfeed while she went to sleep.  I was just getting my nightie on when I heard a huge bang and just knew that Mopsy had hit her head on the radiator.  She’d flung herself back and had cracked her head really hard.  She didn’t black out but screamed so loudly while I held her that I just knew she’d done more than just her usual bump.  I yelled for DH about three times before he appeared.  When he arrived I looked at the back of her head.  There was blood although it wasn’t gushing out.  Being on the back of the head, though, and being a nurse who knows that back-of-the-head injuries can be quite dangerous, and being a panicking, upset mum, we called 999 and an ambulance came within 5 minutes.  Poor Flopsy was so worried and upset and didn’t want Mopsy to go to the hospital.  We rang Mum and her and Dad came over to look after Flopsy and Cotton-tail so Dh could join me at the hospital later.  Mopsy and I got a ride in the ambulance with me lying down and her on my tummy.  She was subdued, and tired, and upset but ok otherwise.  When we got to the hospital and I got to look at her wound properly I realised it wasn’t that terrible when I put my nurse hat on, but the minute I took it off and felt like her Mum again it looked like the most terrible thing ever!  It’s the biggest injury any of them have ever had, and the most blood :-(  It needed glueing so we did the right thing in going to A&E and, although the ambulance turned out to be not necessary, I wasn’t going to risk her suddenly deteriorating in the back of the car if I’d driven her myself!  Mopsy was so brave.  She said it didn’t hurt and let the nurse clean it without a squeak and with no pain killers.  She only cried after it was glued and then it was mostly from relief of it all being over as she started the minute I said “so we can go now…and here’s Daddy come to get us”.   

Needless to say, the radiator is now covered in pillows!  When we got back, Flopsy had made Mopsy a card with a picture of Grandma (my Mum) on the front and a dictated message written by Mum:  “Dear Mopsy,  Please don’t do that never again please.  And please fall in love with me when you grow up and when I grow up.  Love from Flopsy xxx”. 

She’s been fine today, not even particularly grumpy which I’d expected her to be being tired and probably with a headache.  She bumped it once and it started to bleed a tiny bit but it didn’t open up, thank goodness!  We can’t wash her hair for 5 days though, which, for someone with hair like Mopsy’s, is going to mean incredibly frizzy, messy hair.  Never mind…I’d rather have her in one piece looking messy than otherwise with neat hair.